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Ecological effects of cell-level processes: genome size, functional traits and regional abundance of herbaceous plant species.
Annals of botany - 1 Nov 2012
Herben Tomás, Suda Jan, Klimesová Jitka, Mihulka Stanislav, Ríha Pavel, Símová Irena
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Genome size is known to be correlated with a number of phenotypic traits associated with cell sizes and cell-division rates. Genome size was therefore used as a proxy for them in order to assess how common plant traits such as height, specific leaf area and seed size/number predict species regional abundance. In this study it is hypothesized that if there is residual correlation between...
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